This diary is pretty much for "gotcha" purposes - but I wanted to point out (and I haven't seen it yet discussed, apologies if it has been) that actually Sarah Palin doesn't seem to know very much about Russia either. She claimed yesterday in her interview with Couric that (I'll paraphrase, for the reader's wellbeing) when Putin flew into the U.S. he flew over Alaska, and that consequently she had foreign policy experience. Maybe she didn't remember that the capital of Russia, Moscow, from whence one can assume Putin usually departs, is in the eastern European part of the country:
A simple map Sarah Palin should glance at
which means that flights from Moscow to D.C. are transatlantic.
Just to make sure, I checked the Washington Dulles airport website, which mentions that
Other major transatlantic destinations with direct service from Dulles include: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; London, England; Moscow, Russia; Paris, France; Saudi Arabia; Delhi, India; and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The punchline: Palin obviously hasn't flown to Moscow or anywhere in the European region of Russia. Oh wait, we knew that already, because we can count the number of foreign countries she's visited on one hand.
I'd like to believe that this indicates that Palin is deviating strongly from the script, because no handler would let that go by - but with McCain's lies I really don't know what to believe. Way to go McCain campaign - you told a lie that can be disproved by looking at a map.